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Acts 11:28

And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

KJV

ἀναστὰς δὲ εἷς ἐξ αὐτῶν ὀνόματι Ἄγαβος ἐσήμανεν διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος λιμὸν μεγάλην μέλλειν ἔσεσθαι ἐφ’ ὅλην τὴν οἰκουμένην· ἥτις ἐγένετο ἐπὶ Κλαυδίου.

Greek NT

et surgens unus ex eis nomine Agabus, significabat per spiritum famem magnam futuram in universo orbe terrarum, quæ facta est sub Claudio.

Vulgate

And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.

ASV

And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to pass under Claudius.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

21 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Κλαύδιος
klaudios
noun · 3×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
λιμός
limos
noun · 12×
μέγας
megas
adjective · 244×
μέλλω
mello
verb · 110×
οἰκουμένη
oikoumene
noun · 15×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
σημαίνω
semaino
verb · 6×
ἀνίστημι
anistemi
verb · 107×
Ἄγαβος
agabos
noun · 2×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὄνομα
onoma
noun · 228×
ὅλος
olos
adjective · 109×
ὅστις
ostis
relative_pronoun · 146×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: μεγάλην | WH/Treg/NIV: μεγάλην | RP: μέγαν
  • μεγάλην — SBLGNT
  • μεγάλην — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • μέγαν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἥτις | WH/Treg/NIV: ἥτις | RP: ὅστις καὶ
  • ἥτις — SBLGNT
  • ἥτις — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὅστις καὶ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: Κλαυδίου | WH/Treg/NIV: Κλαυδίου | RP: + Καίσαρος
  • Κλαυδίου — SBLGNT
  • Κλαυδίου — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + Καίσαρος — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Covers the assassination of the emperor Caligula and the accession of Claudius. Josephus describes Agrippa I's role in Claudius's accession — the same Herod Agrippa who persecuted the early church and killed James the apostle (Acts 12). Also provides context for the expulsion of Jews from Rome mentioned in Acts 18:2.
Covers the procurators from Fadus through Albinus. The critical passage is Ant. 20.9.1, where Josephus records the execution of "James, the brother of Jesus who was called Christ" by the high priest Ananus in AD 62. This is the second independent Josephan reference to Jesus, and unlike the Testimonium, its authenticity is virtually undisputed by scholars. Also covers the famine…
Covers the period from Herod's death through the outbreak of the revolt in AD 66. Includes the census of Quirinius, Pilate's provocations, the rule of the procurators Felix and Festus (before whom Paul appeared), Agrippa II, and the growing revolutionary movement. Provides essential political context for the entire apostolic period.
1. Caius had held the power not quite four years, when he was succeeded by the emperor Claudius. Under him the world was visited with a famine, which writers that are entire strangers to our religion have recorded in their histories. And thus the prediction of Agabus recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, Acts 11:28 according to which the whole world was to be visited by a famin…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 12:10 — To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
  • 1Kgs 17:1 — And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my w
  • Acts 18:2 — And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
  • Acts 18:2 — And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
  • Acts 21:10 — And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
  • Acts 21:10 — And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
  • Deut 15:11 — For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
  • Eccl 11:2 — Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
  • Eph 5:16 — Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
  • John 16:13 — Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to co
  • Luke 2:1 — And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
  • Luke 3:1 — Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of
  • Luke 21:10 — Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
  • Matt 24:7 — For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
  • Matt 24:14 — And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
  • Rev 2:25 — But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
  • Rom 12:8 — Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.